Shattered Silence
The idea for this piece isn't a new one, it is actually something I have always sketched for a really long time. When I think of a feeling I usually assign an image to it, that's where this website gets its name, Mysteries of my Mind. I think of silence as a pool of water, with a water drop quietly falling with no sound. There is beauty and and sadness in this piece. The rose is alone, it is such a beautiful flower, but its thorns keep people away. Its alone in its silence. I made it out of broken glass to show the pain inside when someone is so alone.
These are my sketches for the idea, you can see I was doodling. That's always the best way to come up with ideas.
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Originally I was going to make it a much bigger piece, however we do not have enough broken red glass and again, we haz no money... so it has to be done smaller. Which is better anyway sense it will be the right size for a stepping stone or a garden stone then.
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The rose has red, orange, and dark red glass to show highlights and low lights, giving the flower a bit more dimension. I used broken mirror pieces to make the water instead of blue glass, this way when someone looks at the piece they will see their own reflection and will be touched some way by the piece.
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Once all the glass has been placed in the image I want I used sticky paper to keep the glass shards in the shape and then placed the paper and all upside down in a 12x12 frame. The glass has to be upside down so that the cement will have the face of the glass showing.
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